Hermine Shaw serving up good food at music festival
Reggae Sumfest is much more than just the entertainment and limelight for many people like Hermine Shaw of St James.
Shaw will tell you that the food is also equally one of the biggest highlights of the ‘Greatest Reggae Show on Earth’.
For the past 26 years, Shaw has been at the helm of homestyle cooking on the main nights of the summer festival held at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay.
Her food stall, branded under the household name ‘Hermine Homestyle’, is a godsend for the thousands of local and international patrons who come out each year looking to chow down on Jamaican mouthwatering dishes.
“My cooking is homestyle, and I do everything like rice and peas, brown stew, curry stew peas, oxtail, ackee and salt fish, salt mackerel, soup, shrimp, conch, and more,” Shaw told the WESTERN STAR.
“People look forward to me every year because they know my stall and know that I cook nothing but good and tasty food. I have people from Canada that come every year for them oxtail,” she added.
Shaw explained that last year’s staging was one of the best as she had more customers than she was able to provide service for.
A SECOND STALL
No doubt that she is now looking forward to the upcoming staging, and she has brought in her son in to operate a second stall.
“I came to Reggae Sumfest off of Sunsplash, and over the years until now, I have always lived good with the promoters. I work with their system and do my business, and I was able to put both my daughter and son through school and college, assist my grandchildren ...,” said Shaw, who is also a taxi operator.
“So Reggae Sumfest did a lot for me. It keeps me alive, motivates me, and I plan for it every year. I appreciate the promoters, and I thank them very much. I thank them a lot for what they have done for me and what I do for myself,” she added.